#50 - Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? The follies of persistence studies - w/ Abad and Maurer

In this episode, Prof. Leticia Arroyo Abad and Prof. Noel Maurer speak to Nicolas Wittstock to present their criticisms of “persistence studies” - accounts of economic history that seek to explain present conditions by evaluating the causal effect of things that happened long ago.